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Robert Pinsky

1990

The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams,

The nearly invisible stitches along the collar

Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians

Gossiping over tea and noodles on their break

Or talking money or politics while one fitted

This armpiece with its overseam to the band

Of cuff I button at my wrist. The presser, the cutter,

The wringer…

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Robert Pinsky

b. 1940

Born and raised in New Jersey, Robert Pinsky is a poet, essayist, and translator. He was the U.S. poet laureate from 1997 to 2000. His translations include Dante’s Inferno and the poetry of Czesław Miłosz. Among Pinsky’s honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. Pinsky is a professor of English at Boston University.

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